u/hvrob4

I’ve been dealing with dyshidrosis since I conceived my 2nd child nearly 4 years ago. With each pregnancy it gets worse and worse. I’ve been seeing a dermatologist this entire time but all he will do is give me a steroid cream and when that one quits working they up the dosage.

I was recently proscribed their strongest steroid cream and then told to follow up with tacrolimus. Here’s the thing, I’m pregnant and the insert for the tacrolimus says that there has been no studies to confirm or deny the safety of topical tacrolimus in pregnancy but you’re definitely not supposed to use it breastfeeding. So obviously I did not use it, I’d rather be miserable than potentially harm my child.

This leads me to my original question. I had 1 week to the day of clear, smooth, glorious skin and then… my fingers became so swollen I couldn’t wear my wedding ring which has never happened before. The swelling made me think, is this steroid cream withdrawal?? Has this BEEN steroid cream withdrawal this whole time?

First 3 photos are before the use of steroid creams vs last photo of my hand currently. I can’t even bend my fingers they hurt so bad.

Edited to add: I notice most talk about flare ups. I no longer have flare ups. This past year has been one consistent, never ending flare up.

What are your favorite ways to use these two peppers? I have a ton of each so preservation methods/ hot sauce welcomed too! This photo was my first harvest of them and it didn’t even make a dent in the ones left on the plant!

I was gone for 6 days. Forecast was calling for 4 days of rain while we were gone. I was even getting thunderstorm notifications. Obviously not happy to see what was once lush sugar rush peach pepper plants look so sad.

Will they recover or should I pull all the peppers? Watering them as I type this.

No, I don’t want lectures about drip water systems. I have some, I just didn’t get to it before we had to leave.

I made this dress for my 4 year olds frog birthday party. I don’t have a sewing machine so it’s all hand stitched. I was happy with how it came out for being my first piece of clothing! Despite showing excitement at first, my four year old decided not to wear it 😅 So her little sister happily wore it instead!

Edited to say: Thank you everyone for the kind encouragement! What a great community!

We haven’t had rain in 3 weeks so this is a result of me watering everything daily except the Florida weave. They are on drip. All the work will always be worth it. Such a peaceful place my yard has become! I can’t wait until more of this *hopefully* produces!

I was gifted this very large peace lily in January after my miscarriage. I would very much like to keep it healthy. I believe it is root bound because I can see some roots through the drainage holes and it seems like such a small pot for such a huge plant.

What soil would you all recommend for something like this? Do these plants like smaller pots? Would I just be incrementally increasing pot size? This is the first peace lily I’ve had. It has not flowered since I’ve had it.

I’ve had this pot for 8 years. I have tried countless times to get the drainage right but it always ends up flooding in our heavy coastal rains. So this year it became a fountain and now the bees, my kids, and myself have this happy little spot in our garden.

Dealing with this only on my poblano peppers. It is growing healthy leaves too. We’ve had some nights dip into the 40s which is unusual for us at this point. Is this just cold damage?

This peach tree has been unhealthy from year 1 this is currently year 3. The fruit it produces is delicious but it has died halfway back. What can I do or should I just pull it?

This Granny Smith Apple is insane. Every year it puts on crazy new growth and has an awful shape. How on earth do I prune this thing??

All of my black Krim tomatoes have these strange elongated looking tomatoes starting but then also a normal looking tomato. Why? Should I remove the weird ones?

Please excuse my gross hand eczema. Having babies apparently spurred something in my body to give me hand eczema and now I can’t get rid of it 😭